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US 12,231,928 · App. 17/266,839 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Reliability enhancement in downlink communication

Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni (San Diego, CA); Shahrokh Nayeb Nazar (San Diego, CA); Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego, CA); Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal, CA)
Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
H04W24/08H04W72/0446H04W72/23H04W72/56
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Patent No.
US 12,231,928
App. No.
17/266,839
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A WTRU may be configured with a plurality of monitoring patterns. The WTRU may determine, based at least in part upon the particular slot in the downlink channel, monitoring occasions for each of the plurality of monitoring patterns. The WTRU determines PDCCH candidates for each of the plurality of monitoring patterns and evaluates the total number of PDCCH candidates for each of the plurality of monitoring patterns against blind detection limits. The WTRU selects one of the plurality of monitoring patterns for the slot based at least in part on determining the PDCCH candidates for the selected monitoring pattern satisfy the blind detection limits.

Claims (36)

1. A wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a processor configured to:

receive configuration information indicating associated search spaces, the associated search spaces comprising a first search space and a second search space and the configuration information indicating the first search space is associated with the second search space;

receive downlink control information (DCI) in a first set of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates in the first search space and receive the DCI in a second set of PDCCH candidates in the second search space; and

receive one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) using the DCI.

2. The WTRU of claim 1 ,

wherein the processor configured to receive the configuration information indicating the associated search spaces is configured to receive the configuration information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

3. The WTRU of claim 1 ,

wherein the processor configured to receive the DCI in the first set of PDCCH candidates in the first search space and receive the DCI in the second set of PDCCH candidates in the second search space is configured to receive a same DCI in each of the first search space and the second search space.

4. The WTRU of claim 3 ,

wherein the processor configured to receive the same DCI in the first search space and the second search space is configured to receive the same DCI in each of the first set of PDCCH candidates in the first search space and the second set of PDCCH candidates in the second search space.

5. The WTRU of claim 4 ,

wherein the first set of PDCCH candidates and the second set of PDCCH candidates comprise a same set of PDCCH candidates.

6. The WTRU of claim 5 ,

wherein the processor configured to receive, in the associated search spaces, the DCI is configured to perform blind detection over the associated search spaces.

7. The WTRU of claim 1 ,

wherein the processor configured to receive the configuration information is configured to monitor the first search space and the second search space for the configuration information.

8. A method of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) detection comprising:

receiving configuration information indicating associated search spaces, the associated search spaces comprising a first search space and a second search space and the configuration information indicating the first search space is associated with the second search space;

receiving downlink control information (DCI) in a first set of PDCCH candidates in the first search space and receiving the DCI in a second set of PDCCH candidates in the second search space; and

receiving one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) using the DCI.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

wherein receiving the DCI in the first set of PDCCH candidates in the first search space and receiving the DCI in the second set of PDCCH candidates in the second search space comprises performing blind detection over the associated search spaces.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

receiving configuration information indicating second associated search spaces;

receiving, in the second associated search spaces, second DCI;

receiving a second one or more (PDSCH) using the second DCI;

wherein receiving one or more PDSCHs using the DCI comprises receiving a first PDSCH configured to carry first data; and

wherein receiving the second one or more PDSCHs using the second DCI comprises receiving a second PDSCH configured to carry the first data.

11. The method of claim 10 ,

wherein receiving, in the second associated search spaces, the second DCI comprises receiving the second DCI in each of a third set of PDCCH candidates in a third search space and a fourth set PDCCH candidates in a fourth search space.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein receiving the configuration information indicating the associated search spaces comprises receiving the configuration information via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

13. The method of claim 8 ,

wherein receiving the DCI in the first set of PDCCH candidates in the first search space and receiving the DCI in the second set of PDCCH candidates in the second search space comprises receiving a same DCI in each of the first search space and the second search space.

14. The method of claim 13 ,

wherein receiving the same DCI in each of the first search space and the second search space comprises receiving the same DCI in each of the first set of PDCCH candidates in the first search space and the second set of PDCCH candidates in the second search space.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 28, 2022
From: IDAC HOLDINGS, INC.
To: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62716080 · Aug 8, 2018
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